It’s time to get your gold medals out and get your Olympic spirit ready! The 2012 London Olympics are right around the corner and San Jose Bike Party is here to celebrate. Let’s see if we can get a gold medal in Building Community. Please remember to ride respectfully, and let’s show How We Ride. Go for the gold!

We share the road with other traffic. Helping cars through the ride makes the ride more enjoyable for everyone. Please remember to turn down the volume when riding through residential areas late at night ’cause waking babies isn’t an Olympic sport!

Information on the route and more after the drop …

BIRDs

BIRDs are our wonderful volunteers that attempt to keep everyone on our rides safe. Please be respectful of their directions and thank them for all of the effort they put into the ride. If you want to help out and make your mark on Bike Party, please join the BIRDs at the volunteer cicle prior to the start of the ride.

Volunteer Circle

Volunteer Regroups are now marked on the map if you want to get plugged in come by and introduce yourself

Ravens

Ravens are the elite group of BIRDs that make sure we leave no trace behind by cleaning up after the party at regroups. They are essential to keeping the party going. If you see any of them with a trashbag collecting your trash, please thank them and if you are so inclined please join them! They are a really cool bunch. Please bring trash bags and help us leave no trace.

How We Ride

If you follow these simple rules, Bike Party will be safe and a positive place for riders, drivers, pedestrians, and our community.

Stop at lights

Stay to the right

Pack your Trash

Roll Past Conflict

Ride Sober

Be nice

Route information

Feeder rides

Feeder rides are a great way to get to Bike Party They allow you to make great friends and get to know people who live near you. They also make it super easy to get back home as a group as most folks ride home with the group they arrived with. You save the planet and save on parking while getting a little bit more exercise. It’s all good.

NSJ/Santa Clara -Meet in front of Mercado Subway- Led by Ian – Leaving at 6:45 (please RSVP in the comments)

Palo Alto — ??

Willow Glen — ??

SJ Downtown — ??

La Dolce Velo — ??

East SJ — ??

Campbell — ??

Los Gatos — ??

Your neighborhood? (let us know in comments below if you want to lead a ride)

Why a chant instead of just a ‘boo’?
Think about it, when you watch the news.
How does a group get a unified message out?
How does a group get their message across clearly?
How do those who hear it know what the message is?
Google occupy chants or fan chants or picket line chants.
You know it works, that’s why we all remember them.
Hey hey, ho ho, two stroke smoke has got to go!

The San Jose Bike Party Community is feeling pretty.
The Party is always hotter by the HUGE bicycling crowd in July.
Put your problems — with all the world’s problems — aside for the evening, and just grab your road ready bicycle, ’cause nobody can stop Bike Party from rolling even if they tried.
Just escape to Bike Party for the evening. Oh, it will sure do that ~~`stressed out and exercise deprived body of yours a lot of good.
I betcha’ nobody ever told ya’ that you will be jammin’ — rockin’ the South Bay — at the greatest party on wheels in America.
You will feel as free as a bird in flight because Bike Party is also… FREE — it cost you nothing.
The best things in life — like SJ Bike Party — are free my bicycling brethren.
You’ve got to get with it!
Bike Party together… FOREVER!
Peace.

The start looks to be at the old Mervins Plaza, on a map that’s the corner of McCormick Drive and El Camnino in Santa Clara. Big parking lot, there will be lots of bikes, you couldn’t miss it if you tried.

Whether you are a first-timer, attending your first Bike Party, or you are a grizzly-veteran, YOU own a piece of tonight’s ride.
Please be aware that we attract “a few anarchist-pretenders” who show up to just “break all the rules”.
Just “totally ignore these folks and their ilk” my esteemed bicycling brethren.
Let the scofflaws do their thing and risk getting ticketed, or arrested; while the rest of us go our own safe — merry way — to enjoy a grand ol’ time at Bike Party.
You will never be wrong, nor be misled, if you listen to the BIRDs, and stick to the simple rules eloquently outlined in: How We Ride.
It is the key that binds 98% of all responsible bicyclists, who show up, month after month, to enjoy a most safe and enjoyable time at Bike Party.

Keep in mind that Bike Party is not a race. It is a once-a-month event that should be savored. It is not like an everyday table wine; but like that vintage bottle for your special, and festive occasions.
So slow down and enjoy being out with the friendliest and coolest group of folks, who share your lifelong love of all things bicycle.
It’s about the great food, the awesome music mixes, and enjoying the HUGE positive vibe that gives you a HUGE parallel — endorphin + adrenalin — rush that lasts for days into the next week.
Let’s do our part to build community and promote world peace with our very apropos Olympic theme, my bicycling brethren.
Remember you are welcome to share your thoughts on the Bike Party Experience and provide feedback beginning tomorrow right here — if you are so inclined.
PEACE, and Bike Party, SAFELY… together… FOREVER!

SJBP lasts past the sunset even in the summer. I’d really recommend getting a bike light before the ride.
California Law requires that all cyclists have a front white light. If you don’t have one you are risking a ticket.

Angel,
I am not doing a pre-ride.. but if you ride up Santa Clara St, turns into The Alameda and turns into El Camino, will lead right to the start. You can also hop on VTA Bus 22 or 522 and that will also lead you right to the start Your bike rides for free.

I will be leaving for the start around 7 or 7:15 pm. My feeder route starts at Blaney and Stevens Creek, heads North on Blaney, East on Homestead, then North on Scott (reversing the direction so that I won’t miss it).

The EZ-EL Wire booth is going to be at tonight’s bike party! Participate in one of our contests to win yourself FREE EZ-EL Wire! Make the best looking bike under 10 minutes and see how well you do. See you tonight!

I am looking forward to joining you guys tonight. It will be my first time out to SJBP and I am seriously looking forward to it. Although I am pretty beat from riding to work a few times this week, I will be out there tonight still.

I will be leaveing from around La Dolce Velo around no later than 7:00PM to head over to the starting location.

Come on Oleee… and Tiger, you guys should know by now that San Jose Bike Party covers the whole South Bay Area; from the peninsula to Gilroy and all points between.
As a SJ Bike Party devotee, I welcome and look forward to our few rides up north.

is there anyone feeding from campbell los gatos saratoga or west san jose? if not i am meeting up with the ppl in cupertino. my friends backed out and my gf has ladies night out. so just looking for ppl to ride with. way more fun with ppl

First time riding and I am coming from south San Jose. Yay so excited! Yeah what the deal I see the route…mtn view and Sunnyvale? SJ is a large city of 1 million people, yet no part of the ride is even in San Jose city limits? So I am super confused. Y u no in San Jose?

Let’s put this local thing to rest please.
75 % of our rides run through San Jose, however; many,MANY of our volunteers reside all over the South Bay and beyond.
Please show them some proper respect, and let’s not get into this tit for tat trifles.
When we keep SJ Bike Party open to all the possibilities, the Bike Party Community is the only consistent WINNER!!
Peace out my bicycling brethren and let’s spread the love to keep Bike Party going strong for long.

I’m not thrilled with the hour in which this event ends. My street is parked solid with trucks that came filled with bikes. This is gonna be very noisy when you all come back and reload your bikes!!! Some of us work weekends. You need to ask ALL the riders to park in the proper parking lots and not in the neighborhoods surrounding.

OK folks, you are not going to find much of bigger bike advocate than I, and I have to tell that my encounter with your mob on Grant Road a few minutes ago was frightening. I stopped my car in the middle of Grant Road and turned on my emergency flashers because there were bikes all over the place, many riding well outside the bike lane and many without lights. Attempting to turn right off of Grant Road in order to get to our home seemed like it would surely cause a collision. One biker started yelling at me, “Don’t hesitate… just turn!!” which may have seemed like a simple idea to the person doing the yelling, but I was not going to make a right turn into a swarm of bikes, so I held my ground until I was certain that I could turn without hitting any of the cyclists.
The net result of this is that you are giving car drivers more reasons to think that cyclists are nuts, and more reasons not to support bike-related initiatives. I strongly encourage the organizers of these events to rethink their motives, and work to create activities that will actually benefit cyclists.

Agree with the previous poster…this is a good idea gone wrong. I almost hit several bikers on Grant tha were not wearing helmets and were not even staying on the right side of the road. I hope the organizers don’t wait until someone gets killed to fix this.

I loved watching all the bikes going down Grant Rd. in Mountain View. Reminds me of home in Sweden where many cyclists ride as normal mode of transportation. Ignore the NIMBYS above who most likely out of shape and use a car to drive a mile to store. Get a life and don’t worry so much about petty things like people enjoying a nice bike ride.